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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3671741" data-attributes="member: 11760">The undead version of Artos Nachtmann was the first time I got to do straight-up from-the-depths-of-Hell evil in this campaign. Sure, Pick is Lawful Evil and Khenemet-Apep is nobody's friend, but both of them have rational motivations that are understandable to normal people.Artos Nachtmann, on the other hand, is something else, and I didn't want him to be a mindless foe trading blows with Emmerson and that's all. So I made the choice to make him a form of intelligent undead (he's a former paladin-turned-blackguard now undead and using the Bone template from the Book of Vile Darkness). And I figured he'd be interested in psychologically destroying the group before doing the same to their souls.And luckily, Bufer's never able to resist chatting with the enemy and he has a big Guilt button right in the middle of his forehead, which Artos was only too happy to begin poking.Turning a level 3 (as I recall) paladin into a level 3 blackguard (with no fighter class levels) is non-standard, but I wanted to reflect that the abbey's taint was a special kind of evil, and capable of abnormally strong corruption.</blockquote>